Programme Manager - Climate Action Fund
Location: UK Flexible (Hybrid, home and office)
Salary: £39,496 to £42,257 per annum (plus ILW, if residing & working in London)
Hours: 35 per week
Contract: Permanent
Hosted and supported by the VCS Emergencies Partnership within the British Red Cross, this role exists as part of an innovative, collaborative team that brings together five roles from three different organisations. The team consists of the Programme Manager who has responsibility for oversight, collaboration and progress of our work, the Senior Project Officer and Delivery Manager responsible for the training approach and resources, and the Policy and Practice lead and the Director of Strategic Communications who will drive the policy, systems change and influencing activity.
The Programme Manager will coordinate delivery of a high-profile, UK-wide programme focused on climate resilience. Working across a cross-sector partnership, the role will ensure effective planning, delivery and collaboration between partners, supporting an approach that centres communities experiencing discrimination and disadvantage.
This role will play a key part in enabling a complex, multi-partner programme to operate effectively – maintaining oversight of delivery, strengthening ways of working and supporting a responsive, learning-led approach.
What will a day in the life of a Programme Manager - Climate Action Fund involve?
- Coordinate delivery of programme activity across partner organisations, ensuring alignment to agreed plans, timelines and outcomes
- Develop and maintain programme plans, delivery trackers and reporting processes to provide clear oversight of process
- Act as a central coordination point cross the partnership, supporting strong communication, alignment and collaboration
- Build effective, trusted working relationships with colleagues across partner organisations
- Provide day-to-day coordination of support across programme activity, ensuring actions are tracked and delivery remains on course
- Support the planning and delivery of key programme activities, such as workshops, events and partner sessions
To be a successful Programme Manager - Climate Action Fund, what will you need?
- Experience delivering or coordinating projects involving multiple partner organisations or stakeholders and matrix styles of working.
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and workstreams.
- Experience building effective working relationships and collaborating across teams or organisations.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to present information clearly to a range of audiences.
- Ability to identify and manage risks, issues and dependencies within a project or programme.
Knowledge of issues relating to climate resilience, emergency planning or systems change with an interest in, and commitment to, equity, inclusion and community-centred approaches.
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Climate Action for All is a five-year, UK-wide programme funded through the National Lottery Community Fund’s Climate Action Fund.
The programme responds to growing evidence that climate-related emergencies, including extreme heat, flooding, fire, cold and severe weather, disproportionately impact marginalised communities, while those same communities are often excluded from resilience planning and decision-making.
The programme brings together Equally Ours, Communities Prepared (part of Groundwork South), and the VCS Emergencies Partnership (The EP, part of the British Red Cross) to strengthen climate resilience by ensuring that communities experiencing discrimination and disadvantage are at the heart of climate preparedness, response, recovery and policy-making.
Through a rights-based and co-produced approach, the programme seeks to shift climate resilience policy and practice away from models that frame communities as “vulnerable”, and towards approaches grounded in agency, participation, equity and shared responsibility.
Each of the three lead partner organisations is recruiting a dedicated lead role to help deliver the programme. Together, these roles will form an integrated programme team working across community engagement, delivery, strategic communications, partnership development and influencing. While each role has a distinct focus, the posts will work closely together to deliver meaningful impact for communities experiencing discrimination and disadvantage, while supporting longer-term systems and policy change across the UK resilience sector.
The closing date for applications is 23.59hrs on Sunday the 28th of June 2026 with interviews to follow from the 13th and 14th of July 2026.
In return for your commitment and expertise, you’ll get:
- Flexible working: Remote and hybrid working, flexitime, compressed hours, and job sharing.
- Holidays: 36 days annual leave (including bank holidays) + option to buy 5 extra days.
- Pension scheme: Up to 6% contributory pension.
- Learning & Development: A range of career & learning opportunities.
- Discounts: Blue Light Discount Card, Tickets For Good & employee benefits platform..
- Wellbeing Support: Peer Supporters, CiC (EAP) & Headspace App.
- Cycle2Work: Lease a bicycle through the scheme.
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